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stop-tap

stop-tap noun: a stopcock.

Noun

stop-tap (plural stop-taps)

  1. A stopcock.
  2. (Wales) Last orders.
    • It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer.1998, Peter Jackson, Lions of Wales, page 139
    • But there we were together on the pavement after stop tap, him cadging a light off me.2010, Gwen Davies, ‘The Professionals’, translated by William Owen Roberts, Best European Fiction 2011

Forms of stop-tap

pluralstop-taps

Origin of stop-tap

From stop + tap.

Questions about stop-tap

What does stop-tap mean?
Stop-tap means a stopcock.
What part of speech is stop-tap?
Stop-tap is a noun.
What is the plural of stop-tap?
The plural of stop-tap is stop-taps.

Words near stop-tap in the dictionary

  1. stop-over
  2. stop-overs
  3. stop-phrase
  4. stop-phrases
  5. stop-start
  6. stop-tap
  7. stop-taps
  8. stop-time
  9. stop-work
  10. stop-works
  11. Stopa

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